Washington D.C. photos taken 9/13/2012

This past week, I was able to go to Washington D.C.  It was a great learning experience.  During one of the nights I had free, I was able to go to the Mall and take some photos.  Here are just some of those I took.  The first one is the the Capital!

 

This is a great photo of the Washington Monument.  In fact, it is my favorite of the whole group.  The sun was setting just perfect so that the monument was glowing just so slightly.

 





This photo is of the capital, but as you can see, I was taking it between some buildings and it was much later than the other two photos.  I like this one because the contrast that is shown between the capital and the surrounding neighborhood of office buildings, street lamps and cars. 

Baking Granny's Hard Jelly Cake with Becky Morris

A bit of history ... At the Morris Reunion in August (see below) Becky was passing around a cake she had made.  I took a piece, thinking nothing of it.  No sooner did I put the cake in my mouth, was I flooded with childhood memories of being at Granny's home eating this same cake during the holidays.  I did not even know I had such memories, but the cake brought everything to light.  With that, Beck and I made an agreement that whenever she was passing through Rexburg, she would teach me how to bake Granny's Hard Jelly Cake.  Well ... she was passing through and arrived at my home late Sunday night 9/2/12.  We started on the cake at 9:30 pm and finished two cakes by 1 am.  Thanks Becky for passing on such an important part of the Morris family history.

 

The Princess helping bake the CAKE!  It is some kind of process to get the cake baked.  Layer upon layer of cake with jelly in between each layer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Cake itself.  It does not look like much in the current state that you see, but after a sprinkle of powdered sugar, a nice tight wrap of wax paper and then foil and a good long sit in the freezer ... the longer the better, it is a gem like no other thing you have ever eaten.

While we waited for each layer of cake to bake, Becky, Fabio (her friend from Brazil), and the two wildmen spent the time playing cards and having a good old Jelly of a time!

 



 

Big birthday for my girl!!!

Big Day for The Princess.  Eleven years old with a hundred ways to celebrate!

 

She, nor I, think she has the breath to blow out all eleven of them.

"Why can't it be my birthday ... again?"



The Kids on the Ferry in Seattle

Morris Reunion

 The boys of the Morris Clan

 The Clan

Uncle "Nal"

It was a great time to get together with family and friends.  Here are some photos of the event.